Talking sex on the factory floor in China
...d a high percentage of urban women had experienced abortion prior to marriage, Xu Qian's team targeted young female workers (aged 16-30) at a Shanghai mobile phone factory. They offered lectures, information leaflets and a free workplace contraceptive service led by the factory's doctors, who received extra t...Estimated 5 million women admitted to hospital each year following an unsafe abortion
...parison, in developed countries complications from abortion procedures or hospitalisations are rare. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines unsafe abortion as a procedure to terminate an unintended pregnancy undertaken either by individuals lacking the nec...FSU study: Abortion notification, consent laws reduce risky teen sex
...he consent of one or both parents before having an abortion reduce risky sexual behavior among teens, according to a Florida State University law professor in Tallahassee, Fla. Jonathan Klick, the Jeffrey A. Stoops Professor of Law, and Thomas Stratmann, professor of economics at George Mason University, cam...Emergency contraception fails to halt abortions
...recent years and whereas 1% of women requesting an abortion in 1984 said they had used it to try and prevent t...eption has been heralded as the solution to rising abortion rates, says Professor Glasier, but in the UK, abortion rates have increased from 11 per 1,000 women ...'Rhythm method' may kill off more embryos than other methods of contraception
... equated global oral contraceptive use to chemical abortion that is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths of embryos, or unborn children, every year. But says Professor Bovens: if all oral contraceptive users converted to the rhythm method, then they would be effectively causing the deaths of millions o...Fetuses cannot feel pain, says expert
.... While a mandate to provide pain relief before an abortion may expose women to inappropriate interventions, risks, and distress. "Avoiding a discussion of fetal pain with women requesting abortions is not misguided paternalism but a sound policy based on good evidence that fetuses cannot experience pain," he...Study identifies the main causes of maternal death in developing countries
...ntinuing death toll due to complications of unsafe abortion is a call for increased attention to access to services that can help women avoid unwanted births." (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper)...Defining the beginning and end of life
...cusses his widely debated secular argument against abortion while Bonnie Steinbock provides a broad view of the moral status of human embryos, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of several approaches. In the second of the two discussions, James L. Bernat speaks of brain death as the determination of d...UK addresses funding gap created by US anti-abortion stance
... aims to address the shortfall in funding for safe abortion services. The Lancet comments: "In light of the USA's continued refusal to act on the consensus that safe abortions save lives, DFID's pledge will be essential if the third, fourth, and fifth Millennium Development Goals--to empower women, to save c...10 million 'missing' female births in India due to selective abortion
...esult from prenatal sex determination, followed by abortion of female fetuses. The researchers looked at data ...mate that prenatal sex determination and selective abortion accounts for 0.5 million missing girls yearly. If this practice has been common for most of the pas...Study demonstrates safety of oral contraceptives in women with lupus
...men with lupus, they say, there is a high elective abortion rate approaching 23 percent of pregnancies which may reflect a failure of the birth control method used or the absence of an adequate birth control program. "Estrogen, as used in this study, appears to be safe in the majority of women with stable ...Mental distress due to abortion lasts for years
Women who have had an abortion still experience mental distress related to the abortion years after it happened. A study published today in the open access journal BMC Medicine reveals tha...Johns Hopkins study suggests link between caffeine dependence and family history of alcoholism
...ety of adverse consequences, including spontaneous abortion and reduced fetal growth. Government health agencies in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom have issued health warnings about limiting the use of caffeine during pregnancy. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has advised pregnant women......y the BMJ today. In fact, the authors suggest that abortion may be linked to a lower risk of depression throug...her risk of depression than all other groups. The abortion group also had a significantly higher mean education and income and lower total family size, all of ...